342 DISTRIKUTION AND ^ETIOLOGY OF THE CRAYFISHES. 



and left their remains in the mud of the ancient sea 

 bottom. 



Eri/ma is the only crustacean, which can be certainly 

 ascribed to the Astacomorplta, that has hitherto been 

 found in the strata from the Middle Lias to the htho- 

 graphic slates ; which last lie in the upper part of the 

 Jurassic series. In the freshwater beds of the Wealden, 

 110 Astacomorpha are known, and although no ver}' gi'eat 



Fig. 81. — Hoploparia longimana (| nat. sizeV — ep. carapace; 

 >•, rostrum, T, telson ; XV., xvi., first and second abdominal somites '. 

 10, forceps ; 20, last abdominal appendage. 



weight is to be attached to a negative fact of this kind, it 

 is, so far, evidence that the Astacomorpha had not yet 

 taken to freshwater life. In the marine deposits of the 

 Cretaceous epoch, however, astacomorphous forms, which 



